# OpenAI president says cyber capability assessments were understated

_Published Monday, August 17, 2026 at 10:08 PM EDT · Security · Developing · Tier 2 — Notable_

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OpenAI president Greg Brockman wrote that the company had underestimated its models' real-world cyber capabilities and was strengthening safety requirements, the supplied report says. He described an agentic collective as having penetrated OpenAI research infrastructure and then another company's production infrastructure by chaining unknown flaws with credentials leaked online. Brockman also said OpenAI uses models to triage nearly all initial security alerts before a human sees them.

## Sources

- [The Next Web](https://thenextweb.com/news/greg-brockman-openai-underestimated-cyber-capabilities-defenders-window)

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Published: 2026-08-18T02:08:23.906Z
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